Deuteronomy 4:27

27 The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where the LORD shall lead you away.

Deuteronomy 4:27 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 4:27

And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations
As they were by both captivities; the ten tribes were dispersed among the cities of the Medes, and the two tribes throughout the empire of Babylon:

and ye shall be left few in number among the Heathen, whither the Lord
shall lead you;
or be "men of number" ^F9, so few that they might be easily numbered; which intimates that it should be other wise with them than when in Egypt; there they were multiplied and increased the more they were afflicted, but in these captivities they should be greatly diminished.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 (rpom ytm) "viri numeri", Montanus, Drusius.

Deuteronomy 4:27 In-Context

25 When you shall father children, and children's children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke him to anger;

26 I call heaven and eretz to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Yarden to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

27 The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where the LORD shall lead you away.

28 There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

29 But from there you shall seek the LORD your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.